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Real Food for the Real Homemaker (Cookbook Giveaway!)
Last week, I was sent a copy of Real Food for the Real Homemaker and let me tell you, this is one gem of a cookbook! I love a good, hearty, healthy, home-cooked meal almost as much as I enjoy making them so when the opportunity to get creative with new recipes in the kitchen presents itself, I jump!Real Food for the Real Homemaker…
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Flea Market Finds Pour La Vingt-Huit
Bonjour beautiful friends! It's that time of the week again... for... Flea... Market... Finds..!!! Also known as "what I spent way too much money on last week" Lol! I'll start with an apology for not sharing (yet) what I'd hinted about last week. A delivery from a special blogging friend. It's going to take one more week to get it…
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Children: Blessing or Burden
Recently, a sweet young mother emailed me for encouragement, as she and her husband are in the early stages of trusting God for the number of children in their family. This precious young mom has three little children, very close together, and is already receiving an abundance of negative feedback about her "large family." Unfortu…
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How To Survive Morning Sickness Naturally
Morning sickness; some people get it, some people don't. Some people are incapacitated for their whole pregnancy, others get off nausea-free. With Charity, I fell somewhere in between. I took two months off of work between weeks 7-16 and spent my days lying on the couch with a red pail on the floor beside me. I couldn't cook, and …
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What if I Only Have One Child?
"I'm so glad we have at least two. Now it feels like I'm busy enough for staying at home to qualify as a real job."Have you ever felt that way? That there's not enough labor involved with raising just one child to constitute giving up a career to stay at home? Is there a particular number of children one must have or a certain lev…
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Tomato Spice Soup
It's that time of year again where everything in the garden seems to be ready all at the same time and I can't keep up! This was our best year for growing tomatoes. They're a little late turning red because of the cooler weather we've been having, but all the rain at the beginning of the year has given us a bumper crop of large, j…
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NEWS: Le Macaron Goes for East-End Location - Still Under Construction
AUGUST 14, 2010: The post below was written in March. Le Macaron is still under construction. Progress seems to be happening slowly. At this rate, expect a mid-fall (October or November) opening? ____________Stay tuned, fans of bakeries and sweet pastry: Gilles Gobin, former executive pastry chef at the Hotel Sask, will open his v…
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NEWS: Two New Downtown Delis
The last few weeks of glorious summer have brought a couple of new eateries to our fair city's centre, in addition to sunburns and melting ice-cream cones.First, the old house on 2100-block Hamilton Street that was home to Neo Japonica for more than a decade has reopened. Welcome to Taste of Tuscany. The new owners took out the sh…
